How to kill background processes on Samsung devices programmatically

Question

Some apps keep running in background after being closed. I can see them in the device maintenance (battery). I would like to close these apps programmatically (These apps are mine too, so I could modify them if needed).

I tried "killBackgroundProcesses", but it doesn't work. Actually, the app doesn't even show in the processes list when I execute "adb shell ps -A". I also tried to close these apps differently, but they randomly appear in the "apps that drain battery" list.

How can I close them programmatically from my Android app?

Answer 1

You can get background processes pid with this command :

adb shell ps -A |grep BackgroundProcessesName |awk "{print $1}

and kill it :

adb shell kill pid

in one line command :

adb shell kill $(adb shell ps -A |grep BackgroundProcessesName |awk "{print $1})